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News Release - State Board Votes to Appeal Lobato Case

State Board of
Education votes to appeal Lobato case

The Colorado State
Board of Education voted today to take the next steps necessary to
appeal the recent Lobato v. State court decision.

The
Dec. 9 ruling on the Lobato case declared Colorado’s school funding
system underfunded and not meeting the requirement in the Education
Clause of the Colorado Constitution of a “thorough and uniform” system
of public education.

In its special
meeting held this morning, the board voted to authorize the Attorney
General to file a notice of an appeal in the Colorado Supreme Court in
the matter of Lobato v. State, on behalf of the Colorado State Board of
Education. It also voted to direct Commissioner Robert Hammond to
authorize the Attorney General to file a notice of an appeal in the
Colorado Supreme Court in the matter of Lobato v. State, on behalf of
the Colorado Commissioner of Education.